A Home Coming Chapter 2: The Number Part 1
Log Entry 1-0-2: What ever planet Temple sent us to, it definitely wasn't planned for. We definitely have ideas that the Blues and Reds aren't smart enough to figure the frequencies of the teleportation grenades. But that leaves us with more questions. Where did they acquire Charons tech? How do we plan to find eachother? And why does this planet seem so familiar, yet it's not marked on any map or in UNSC database?
(Location: Blues and Reds Asteroid Compund)
(Time: 10 Minutes after teleportation)
POV: No One
"THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THERE NOT IN THE CELLS?! WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?!" Temple shouts at a red soldier.
"I-I don't know sir, W-We checked the c-cells and we found no one i-inside them" The red soldier replies nervously.
"Fuck...FUCk!!" Temple yells as he starts to throw things in his office.
Temple then takes his pistol and tries to shoot the red soldier, but misses and kills the blue solider standing at the door.
"Get Surge and Bucky, tell them to gather as much men and FIND THEM, kill the rest of them if you need to, but bring me the Freelancer ALIVE!!!" Temple exclaims.
"Y-Yes sir" The red soldier replies nervously as he salutes and leaves.
Once the red soldier leaves Tenples office, Temple sits down on his chair to use his computer, only to grow more frustrated as pop-up ads continue to flood the monitor.
"I swear to god if Bucky has downloading porn again, I'm throwing him out the airlock." Temple says as he tries to close each pop up.
(Location: Unknown Planet)
(Time: Two Minutes after Teleportation)
POV: Agent 26
Once the bright orange light fades away, 26 could only find himself laying in grass. He looks around him to see where Yupia has gone, but she is nowhere to be found.
"Great, just fucking great..." 26 thinks as he gets up and looks around more.
"Delta? Where are we? And where's Yupia?" The mute Freelancer thinks to one of his A.I. companions.
A familiar green light glows in front of 26 to been seen only by 26.
We are unsure where the teleportation grenade has sent us, as for Yupia, we do not know, the teleportation has sent damaged some of our systems, but it will take some time to repair. I recommend you gather your gear to look for any life, perhaps some locals know what planet we are located on." Delta responses
26 picks up his DMR from the ground and de-spawns it, making it just deconstruction in a blue light.
"Let's just hope your right about this." 26 responds in his head.
While 26 explores the forest, he thinks about his team. Where could they have gone? Did they get teleported on this planet? Or where they teleported somewhere else?
Hey, don't worry about them too much, they can handle themselves" the familiar cobalt A.I. Epsilon responds in 26's head
"Nuri, Gyro, and Yupia can, they have there little 'gifts' but still, there reckless sometimes, as for Locus, he might be a little bit of trouble." 26 replies mentally.
"We are the top squad for a reason, even though some of them are very questionable at times" Epsilon says in his usual sarcastic tone.
"Do you think other squads will find us?" 26 thinks
"Hard to say, consider the leader of our army has just gone missing, I'm pretty sure things may get out of hand back on the ship." Epsilon replies
During 26's and Epsilons mental conversion, slight growls are heard by 26.
Motion tracker just flared up, we got about 2 dozen hostiles closing in on us!" Epsilon exclaims
"You know, you literally don't have to yell, your inside my head." The Freelancer replies mentally as he spawns his DMR.
"Just shut the fuck up and get ready!" Epsilon snaps back.
When 26 spawns his DMR, several black creatures resembling a pack of wolves with some sort of skull pattering on there body charge at the Freelancer.
What...The...Actual...Fuck." Epsilon says.
"Are you seriously saying that, we've fight a lot worse before" 26 mentally snaps at Epsilon.
When the pack of large black creatures start to run towards the Freelancer, he takes his aim and open fires. Consistently landing headshots on each creature bringing each of them down. However, he is only able to take down 14 before running out of ammo.
Shit, this not a good time to not have ammo clips" 26 thinks to himself, unable to find any ammo clips on his armor.
26 starts to dodge the creature with ease with his jump pack. He then de-spawns his DMR to spawn two SOCOM Magums. Once spawned, 26 continues to dodge and take shots at the creatures. Killing only about 7 of them. Once he runs out of ammo again, the last of the creature take there opportunity to lunge at the Freelancer only to be mowed down by gunfire.
Holy shit, nice shot!" Epsilon exclaims
"That wasn't me" 26 replies to his A.I in his head
The Freelancer looks to where the gunfire came from to only see a group of 4 teenagers.
"You know a thank you would be nice" said the girl in cocoa colored outfit. In her hands, she was holding a golden looking minigun.
"And people think we carry crazy weapons" Epsilon says in 26's head.
26 only just examines the the group of teenagers, the girl with the minigun wore a long cocoa-colored shirt with dark brown trousers and brown belt with bullets. She also wore high heels that made her about six feet tall as well as wearing a beret and pure black sunglasses over her eyes. She had fair skin with short brown hair and wavy locks on the side of her face. Epsilon describes her to be what he calls a "fashionista".
The large man to her left had a large orange great sword, a little bit similar to a great sword 26 can spawn but not as large. He was approximately seven feet tall with short black hair with tanned skin. His clothes were a large pale green and brown warriors robe with a five layered sode on his left shoulder. He may look intimidating to others, but not to 26.
The second teenage boy next to the tall one caught some attention from the Freelancer, he was was dark skinned with messy copper colored hair. He wore a orange sleeveless zipped up vest with brown pants. Attached to his scarred arms were large blades. What caught the Freelancers attention from the boy was his eyes. They were pure white, to what the Freelancer can assume, he was blind.
"Looks like we found a new friend for Yupia." Epsilon chuckes to himself inside 26's head.
The last one of the group definitely caught 26's attention. It as a girl who was approximately five feet and six inche. She wore a long sleeved brown jacket with a golden zipper, she also had black shorts with gold trimmings and black leggings. She had long brown hair and had brown eyes, she also had some sort of box on her belt. But what caught his attention the most was her rabbit ears on her head.
"Uh, Remnant to who ever you are?, can you hear me?" The girl with the minigun asks getting a bit impatient.
"Remnant?" 26 thinks to himself
All the 26 can do is nod at her question
"Well can you speak? If you can hear me you can talk to." she exclaims again.
26 just shakes his head no to her question
"Wait, you can't talk?" The cocoa girl asks.
26 nods his head again
"Well...this is certainly awkward now, well lets get formalities out of the way, I'm Coco, leader of of Team CFVY" Coco exclaims proudly.
"My name is Yatsuhashi Daichi." The tall boy says has he bows.
"The quiet one here is Fox" Coco says has the boy in orange nods.
"My n-name is Velvet" the girl with the rabbit ears says in a shy tone.
"Now, since we told you who we are, who are you?" Coco asks.
The Freelancer just only stares at them more, with a deadpanned look under his helmet.
Uh, Coco, he can't speak remember" Velevet says to her leader.
"Right" she responds as she turns her minigun in to handbag.
"Okay seriously what the actual fuck" Epsilon says inside 26's helmet.
Velvet's rabbit ears slightly twitch as she only heard a faint whisper. Coco on the other hand takes out a small device
Here, use this, just type out what you want to say" Coco says has she extends her arm out to give 26 the device.
26 looks at the device but does not take it, he slightly pushes her arm away.
Epsilon, set up a holographic projection, have it show the words I think of." 26 says to Epsilon in is head.
"Why can't we show them who we are?" Epsilon responds in his helmet.
"We don't know who they are, we just met them, it's better for you guys to stay hidden for now." 26 says to Epsilon.
A small holographic rectangle appears next to the Freelancer with the words.
"There's no need for that. I am designated as Freelancer Agent 26" The the hologram projects.
The four teenagers look at the Freelancer with mixed reactions, Coco has a look of interest, Yatsuhashi has the same calming look as before, Velvet has a little bit of a look of fright and nervousness, while fox was clueless of the situation.
"So big guy, what's a armored atlas guy like yourself doing here?" Coco asks as she tilts her sunglasses down revealing her brown eyes.
"Atlas? What's Atlas?, and to answer your other question, I'm not so sure myself." The projection displays
The group of teenagers look at eachother with a bit of confusion.
"Now what are you doing here in the middle of a forest?" The projection displays as the Freelancer crosses his arms.
"Our headmaster gave us a mission to investigate some sort of energy reading as well as clearing Grimm out of the area." Yatsuhashi replies
"And it looks like you did some of the work for us." Coco says with a smirk.
Grimm? Are those the thing we just fought?" Epsilon says inside of 26's helmet.
26 notices Velvet's rabbit ears twitch again as she slightly looks around
Epsilon for the love of god log off, that velvet girl might hear you." 26 tells the Cobalt A.I. Mentally.
Epsilon then stops talking. 26 then starts to focus on the conversation again.
Headmaster? As in a teacher, your tought to fight those large black creatures?" The projection displays.
"Uh, yeah, were from Beacon Academy, ever heard of it?" Coco asks sarcastically.
26 responds to her question with his head shaking no
"Seriously, you never heard of it? Where are you from?" Coco asks.
26 avoids her question to only ask
"Where can I speak to this 'Headmaster'?" The projection displays
Coco only smirks at the question
"Well follow us big guy, we can take you there" Coco says with a slight flirtatious tone as she walks away with her team.
"She does realize I'm only 2 inches taller than her" 26 thinks to himself before following them.
(Timeskip: 30 minutes)
(Location: "Beacon Academy")
POV: No One
After the ride on what the team calls a "bullhead", 26 and the rest of team CFVY exit the ship, while Coco did nothing but ask questions and flirt with the Freelancer during the ride to the ship, 26 just ignores her or block out her questions to speak with his A.I., but he also kept tabs on Velvet. During the flight, she kept looking over at him, wondering what she was hearing back in the forest, if 26 was going to be keeping his A.I. Hidden, he was going to have to play his cards right.
While Team CFVY exited the Bullhead, 26 just observed the academy, it was larger than he expected, lots of open room, a very large tower, and plenty of buildings. 26 then snapped back to reality and followed Team CFVY, only to have some of the students stare at him. He couldn't blame them, he was wearing high tech armor instead where people just standard clothing as well as uniforms. 26 looks at CFVY as he saw students looking at them
Hey Team CFVY's back!" A random student yells.
26 continues to walk with them as he sees a girl with black hair and amber eyes with a black bow on her head. She also seemed to be carrying some sort of sword on her back
Velvet? Are you okay?" The girl with the black bow asks Velvet.
"I'm fine, I had Yatsuhashi to look out for me." Velvet responds to her as another girl in a white dress walks up to them, she also had light blue eyes, white hair, and a large scar over her left eye. She also seemed to have some kind of rapier on her waist.
"Your mission was supposed to end a week ago, what happened?" The girl in white exclaims while 2 more girls show up behind them, the first one was short and looked very young, she looked like she was 15 and she wore a black and red dress with a red hood and cape as well as having silver eyes. She also had some sort of red weapon on her back. The other girl with her was taller, she had blonde hair with lilac eyes, she wore a brown jacket and a orange scarf. She also seemed to have some sort of yellow gauntlets on her wrists.
"N-Nothing happened, it was just, there were so many , we were also assigned something else." Velvet responds as she glances at the Freelancer walking past her.
"Oh, but don't worry, you first years are just a shadowing huntsmen so you should be fine." Velvet tells the four girls.
"Riiiiiiight." The blonde says as Velvet looks at her team.
"I should go. Be safe okay?" Velvet responds as she turns around to catch up with her team.
As Team CFVY and 26 walk towards the main building, a middle aged woman with very light-blonde haired woman with fair skin and bright green eyes, she also wore glasses, a white long sleeved top with a wide keyhole neckline, and a black high waisted pencil skirt with black-brown stockings as well as a purple cape. She also held a riding crop. The more frightening person to 26 was her voice, it was very familiar to someone he knew in the Freelancer program
Team CFVY, I am correct to assume your mission was successful?" The woman asks
"Texas?!" 26 thinks as he stares at the woman
"Of course Miss Goodwitch." Velvet responds to Goodwitch
Goodwitch then looks at the Freelancer staring at her
"And who is the armored man you brought with you?" Goodwitch says as her tone becomes harsher while she has a stare off with the Freelancer.
"He said he might have the information about that energy reading you sent us for." Yatsuhashi says calmly, hoping to calm down the teacher.
After what felt like a eternity for Team CFVY as the watched the stare down between their teacher and the mute Freelancer, the teacher speaks up
Team CFVY you may go to your dorm room, your free of classes for the day, as for you-" Goodwitch says as she stares at 26. "I believe Ozpin would like to have a word with you."
26 only nods as Goodwitch leaves, 26 just gives a quick glance towards Team CFVY before following Goodwitch towards the large tower
You know, she's definitely like Tex, what a bitch." Epsilon says to 26 in his helmet.
Another A.I. Voice appears in 26's head, this time, this voice is female, belonging to the A.I. Beta
Go fuck yourself Church!" Beta yells at Epsilon inside his head.
Epsilon and Beta continue there argument as 26 just rolls his eyes under his helmet
(Timeskip: 8 Minutes)
(Location: Ozpin's Office in Beacon Tower)
POV: Agent 26
While Beta and Epsilon argue the ENTIRE elevator ride up the tower while I had to stand in there with that teacher who did nothing but stare at me as if I was a hostile, I can't blame her, I would be as paranoid as she would be if I was in her position
Once we exit the elevator, I see two men in the office. The man sitting down on the chair has a cane leaning on the desk and a mug in his hand. He was middle aged with silver hair, he wore a unzipped black suit over a buttoned vest and green shirt, he also has long dark-green pants and had spectacles. 26 felt a sense of trust towards the man, which is something he rarely has with anyone, including his missing squad.
The other man however was dressed in a white overcoat with a grey undercoat, a black sweater, and a red necktie. He also had white suit pants and has a white glove over his right hand. The man also had black hair with some grey areas. According to Delta's Bio-Scan, he had cybernetics, his right arm was completely robotic. Just by looking at the man, 26 definitely knew he had a militaristic attitude.
Greetings sir, allow me to introduce myself, I am Professor Ozpin of Beacon Academy, and this is my colleague General Ironwood of Atlas." Ozpin says with a friendly smile.
26 stares at the Ozpin and Ironwood, examining them to get a better understanding of them, while Ozpin and Ironwood do the same.
"The Team that found you said you have information about the strange energy reading that we found a few hours ago." Ironwood says towards the Freelancer.
26 gives a slight nod towards the general.
Can you speak sir?" Ozpin asks curiously.
26 shakes his head no towards Ozpin. The 26 spawns the Holographic rectangle to communicate.
The only thing I can guess is that I was the cause of that energy reading you picked up, of we're going to discuss this into further detail, I would prefer if it was done if she wasn't in the room." The hologram projects as 26 points his thumb towards Goodwitch.
Goodwitch sends a glare at 26 before Ozpin dismissing Goodwitch, as she leaves, Ozpin presses a button on his desk to close the shutters for the windows.
"Now explain what you know." Ironwood says with a strict tone.
26 sends a glare through his helmet towards the general. Then suggests a idea.
Alright, but I have questions of my own, so let's play a small game, I ask a question, you answer, the you get to ask a question, and I'll answer to what I'm capable of." The hologram projects.
"That sounds fair enough, ask away Agent." Ozpin says with a smile, although Ironwood gave Ozpin a shocked expression.
"What planet are we on?" The projection displays
Ozpin and Ironwood both give eachother a quick look, Ironwood has a confused look while Ozpin still has a calm and collected look.
"Is this some sort of joke to you?" Ironwood slightly growls towards the mute Freelancer.
"I wish I was." The projection displays.
"Your on a planet called Remnant." Ozpin says.
"Now, about those energy readings, what caused it?" Ironwood says with a stern tone while glareing at 26.
26 thinks for a few seconds before responding to the Generals question without revealing to much information.
"Like I said, I might have been the cause of it, my squad was sent to capture someone, long story short, things went south quick, we were ambushed , the people we were trying to capture got there hands on some very dangerous technology, once me and my squad were ambushed, we were teleported, and I guess I ended up here." The projection displays as 26 crosses his arms.
Ironwood definitely had the look that showed that he didn't believe what 26 has told him, Ozpin on the other hand just continued to look at the Freelancer, having a hard time reading 26 due to only staring at a helmet with a purple glowing visor.
Now, does your planet have space travel?" The projection displays.
"No, Atlas may be the most advanced kingdom in Remnant, but we have not yet achieved space travel, our main focus has been to develop defenses for the kingdoms." Ironwood explains.
26 slightly looks away for a second before noticing Ironwood and Ozpin glance at eachother.
And who are these people you are after?" Ironwood says.
26 contemplates with is A.I. Companions in his head, wondering if they should tell the two about the Blues and Reds.
"We should tell him, you know they will come after us." Epsilon says in 26's head.
All of A.I.'s agree to tell the General and the Headmaster about the Blues and Reds.
"The people my squad was after is a dangerous group known as the Blues and Reds, they are a group of Simulation Troopers seeking revenge against a group known as the Freelancers, they were successful, they have killed every remaining Freelancer that was in hiding, as I'm aware of, im the only surviving Freelancer, and that puts a large target on my head, and they had no problems killing anyone else in there way." The hologram projects.
Ironwood and Ozpin look at eachother, both of them had a look of concern for what they just told. There was silence before Ironwood broke the silence.
How can we believe you?" Ironwood says while receiving a glare from the Freelancer
Once Ironwood said those 5 words, 26 just clenches fists before playing a video from the infiltration mission before he arrived on Remnant. After showing Ozpin and Ironwood the video feed, Ironwood fell silent, while Ozpin speaks up.
"Well Agent, if these 'Blues and Reds' are going to be coming after you, you will need a place to stay before you deal with them, I am willing to allow you to stay in my school, under a few conditions." Ozpin says as he smiles as the mute Freelancer slightly perks up as he hears his offer.
"You will need to stay with a team as well as attend classes if your going to stay here." Ozpin explains.
26 ponders his terms for a second before replying
"How about a deal, I attend your school, I get put on a team of your choice, but, in return, you tell me when ever you find another on of these energy readings, I am the first person you notify. Deal?" The hologram displays as 26 crosses his arms again as he stares at the headmaster.
The headmaster smiles as he just replies with a few words.
We have a deal Agent 26, welcome to Beacon Academy." Ozpin says with a smile while Ironwood looks at Ozpin with a look of slight anger and shock.
"Ozpin you can't be serious, we don't even know him, we don't know what he looks like, we don't even know his age." Ironwood exclaims.
"It doesn't matter if you know me or what I look like, I can be of great assistance to what you need done, as for my age, I'm 18, but no one else needs to know, it's better if no one knows anything else, what we have discussed, stays between us." The hologram projects as 26 leans a closer towards the general with a bit of hostility.
Ironwood and 26 have a slight stare down before Ozpin breaks up the two.
Now, thank you for your time Agent, now take this." Ozpin says as he hands a device to the Freelancer, the same device that Coco held towards him earlier when they were in the forest.
"What is this supposed to be?" The hologram projects as 26 inspects the device before attaching it to his armor on his left arm, immediately locking it in place.
"That would be a scroll, it the standard communication device in our world, now follow me, I will take you to your team." Ozpin says as he stands up with his cane in hand and leads the Freelancer to the elevator.
After 40 minutes pass from Ozpin giving a tour to the Mute Agent, Ozpin leads 26 to a dorm room, while walking to the dorm room, 26 shares a mental conversation with his A.I.'a wondering what team 26 will be assigned to.
One Ozpin knocks on the door to his supposed new team, the door opens with a very, annoying familiar face to 26.
Oh hello Professor Ozpin, what can I do for you?" Coco responds as she looks at the Freelancer behind Ozpin.
"Miss Adel, I bring interesting news, your team now has a new team member, I would be correct to assume your team is the most aquatinted with him" Ozpin replies with a smile as he steps aside revealing the Freelancer just standing.
"Yes sir." Coco replies with a smirk as she opens the door more revealing the rest of her team looking at the door way.
"Well I suggest you help him as much as you can Miss Adel, thank you for your time." Ozpin says as he takes his leave.
Once Ozpin is out of sight, Coco lets 26 inside of his new dorm room only to be receiving looks from the rest of the team. Coco then walks up behind 26 and exclaims
Well team, looks like we have a new member." Coco says.
"Uh, Coco, we only have 4 beds..." Velvet points out.
A smirk forms on Coco's face while Fox and Yatsuhashi roll there eyes realizing what Coco is about to do.
Looks like your going to have to share with someone till-" Coco says before being cut off by 26
"I'll just sleep on the floor then." The hologram displays as 26 finds a open space in the corner of the room.
Fox, Velvet and Yatsuhashi slight chuckle from the shutdown 26 gave to Coco.
"Of all the teams...it had to be hers..." 26 and his A.I.'s say in unison mentally.
A/N
Thanks for reading the second chapter, this one was definitely a lot longer than chapter 1, however this one, I felt like I could have done more. And sorry for the combat writing, I suck at it, anyways thanks for reading, Cheers :D
